It Will be Idiotic to Attack Urjit Patel: Subramanian Swamy

New Delhi: Urjit Patel’s appointment as new RBI Governor appeared to have support of BJP MP Subramanian Swamy who had launched a series of attacks against the outgoing Governor Raghuram Rajan.

In a string of retweets and replies to his Twitter followers, Swamy said it will be utter “idiotic” to think he will attack Patel because he was born in Kenya.

Swamy, who has been extremely critical of Rajan’s policy of not lowering interest rate to check inflation, hoped that Patel will not be as “hawkish”.

When one of his followers criticised Patel for being a Kenyan national, Swamy replied: “He is not a Kenyan citizen, but was. R3 was born Indian and chose to continue his US green card even though in India from 2007.”

@rupasubramanya :He is not Kenyan citizen but was. R3 was born Indian & chose to continue his US Green Card even though in India from 2007

— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) August 20, 2016

R3 is the acronym he uses for referring to Raghuram Rajan whom he had on several occasions attacked for keeping interest rate high and hurting growth.

When someone else said if Patel will be as hawkish as Rajan, Swamy replied: “Don’t be an idiot like presstitudes.”

His tweets led to his followers proclaiming that he was backing Patel’s appointment.